View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?
(a) American.
(b) African.
(c) European.
(d) South American.

2. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) Permission.
(b) A desire.
(c) A need.
(d) A push.

3. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Rich.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Dark corners.
(d) Freaks.

4. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.
(a) Identity.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Honor.
(d) Innovation.

5. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Common.
(c) Lying.
(d) Darker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.

2. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

3. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?

4. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

5. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 191 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample